What is the best word choice bused to describe the probalility of beatingt your friem

What two unlike elements are being compared in this simile? the cyclops and the mast of a ship the cyclops' belly and his sheep manflesh and gulps of whey a mast and a flock of sheep

Read the excerpt from "mending wall." we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. what does the line “and some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?

Is this inappropriate language,”but i’m certainly not the loser my step-father johnnie likes to think i am”? ?